Accessibility Policy

Website Accessibility Design Guidelines

This municipality makes every possible effort to make this website compliant with the American with Disabilities Act. If you have advice or comments on how we can improve this website’s accessibility for you or for other users who have disabilities, please do let us know.

This municipal website has been designed with the aim of providing accessibility to all users, including those with disabilities:

  • The fonts used throughout this website are standardized and are intended to be easily readable and legible across various devices.
  • The design of this site is intended to rely on text for navigational links (instead of graphics) in order to make the site readable by screen readers and other assistive technology.
  • Our intention is to communicate to you and other site users mainly with textual content instead of relying on color.
  • Whenever possible, we have all images and hyperlinks with appropriate or descriptive “alt text” or alternative text to help.
  • Our intention is to make this website complaint with American with Disabilities Act Section 508 so that it is accessible to all users.
  • We work to comply with Section 508 as well as as the WCAG 2.1 A and AA for accessibility standards.
  • Should you or anybody else have some difficulty or challenges accessing any part of this site, please contact us directly through this website, via email, through the mail, or call us on the telephone with your questions, concerns, advice, or comments. We will do our best to assist you!

If you use technology to assist with with consuming content on this site, including a Braille reader, a screen reader, TTY (Text Telephone) or TDD (Telecommunication Device for the Deaf) and the format, layout, organization or style of any of the content or material on this website interferes or inhibits with your ability to access the information, please contact us. Alternatively, users who need accessibility assistance can contact us by phone through the Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339 for TTY/Voice communication.

To help us serve you better, please include the following information when contacting us:

  • Describe the nature of your accessibility problem
  • What is the URL / web address where the information is located
  • What format would you prefer to receive the content or material provided to you
  • The best contact information for you

Web Browser Accessibility Tools

Nowadays the most popular browsers have accessibility built into it. Likewise the most popular mobile devices (specifically Android and iOS) have accessibility built into their operation systems. It could help you to look at the links below for assistance in optimizing and enhancing your user-experience should you have issues with accessibility:

Other Resources

  • This site will also contain PDF files, and therefore you may use Adobe Reader to view and print these PDFs. Adobe Reader is a free software program and is available across most popular platforms, devices and operating systems. You can visit the Adobe website to download the software.
  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines can also be accessed online

Privacy Policy

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. Embedded content from other websites Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

We do not share your data with anyone. Ever!

How long we retain your data

If you fill out an online form, the data is retained for up to 3 years.

What rights you have over your data

You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Google reCAPTCHA Terms of Use

By accessing or using the reCAPTCHA APIs, you agree to the Google APIs Terms of Use, Google Terms of Use, and to the Additional Terms below. Please read and understand all applicable terms and policies before accessing the APIs. You acknowledge and understand that the reCAPTCHA API works by collecting hardware and software information, such as device and application data, and sending these data to Google for analysis. The information collected in connection with your use of the service will be used for improving reCAPTCHA and for general security purposes. It will not be used for personalized advertising by Google. Pursuant to Section 3(d) of the Google APIs Terms of Service, you agree that if you use the APIs that it is your responsibility to provide any necessary notices or consents for the collection and sharing of this data with Google. For users in the European Union, you and your API Client(s) must comply with the EU User Consent Policy. Your use of reCAPTCHA is subject to call limits. Google may in its sole discretion enforce these limits through any of the means described at call limits or in these terms of service.